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begins to sing about the latter end of November, 
and continues its song more or less till Jaume. 
A young Canary bird, linnet, skylark, or ro- 
bin, (who have never heard any other bird) are 
said best to learn the note of a nightingale. 
They are caught in a net-trap; the bottom 
of which is surrounded with an iron ring; the 
net itself is rather larger than a cabbage net. 
When the trappers hear or see them, they 
strew some fresh mould under the place, and 
bait the trap with a meal-worm from the baker’s 
shop. Ten or a dozen nightingales have been 
thus caught in a day. 
No. VI. 
EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE 
SINGING OF BIRDS, BY THE HON. DAINES 
BARRINGTON; IN A LETTER TO MATHEW 
MATY, M.D. SEC. R.S. 1773. 
From the PartosopuicaL Transactions, Vol. LXIITI. 
Dear Sir, 
As ‘the experiments and observations I mean 
to lay before the Royal Society relate to the sing- 
ing of birds, which is a subject that hath never 
